(Ab)normal Desire (2023)

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Released:
2023-11-10

Overview:
Director Yoshiyuki Kishi and screenwriter Takehito Minato—the team behind acclaimed boxing epic Wilderness—reunite to adapt Ryo Asai's prize-winning novel. A sensitive drama about the aberrant in a society without regard for diversity, the story unites characters trying to hide abnormalities: a prosecutor who is worried that his pubescent son is a shut-in, an introverted saleswoman with a peculiar habit, and a student tortured by feelings she can’t express. In a world fill with abnormalities, what if it’s actually normal to be abnormal?

Director:
Yoshiyuki Kishi

Runtime:
2h 14min

Genre:
Drama

  • Cast:
  • Goro Inagaki
    as
    Hiroki Terai
  • Yui Aragaki
    as
    Natsuki Kiryu
  • Hayato Isomura
    as
    Yoshimichi Sasaki
  • Kanta Sato
    as
    Daiya Morohashi
  • Ayaka Higashino
    as
    Yaeko Kobe